After Sunset was released, New Rose proposed
MGR to join its label Lively Art that the media used to
present like a French attempt "à la mode" 4AD or Factory
. Thanks to Sunset, the band began to appear in the press with
interviews and chronicles. Completed by Daniel Brajkovic (bass guitar), the time
came for MGR to gig around, at le Gibus first, then for
the festival Ouï FM at le Théatre Mouffetard
. For the forthcoming album, the studio Mix-it was chosen, mostly because
two former members of Metal Urbain, Charles Hurbier
and Eric Debris were in charge there. The first recording was the
Party for the compilation 13 just before the second album
70 Suns in the Sky.

In november, MGR started a tour in France supporting And Also the
Trees. At the same time, MGR was getting involved in the hazy pseudo-movement
self named "Touching Pop" with bands like Asylum Party and
Little Nemo. The results was an intensive performance period for
MGR with venues like L'Elysée Montmartre or le
Bataclan in Paris. This is when Lively Art, the key actor of the
"Touching Pop" movement released the CD single
TP. This single shows the three bands, MGR, AP and
LN united, playing all together the song Tribes are Meeting
under the name of TeePee.

In the middle of this active period, 70 Suns in the Sky was released along
with the single Mary's Garden. To fulfill Lively Art
's whish, MGR recorded new songs to be added to
Sunset for the forthcoming CD version. The last event in the fall of the
80's was for MGR the night of "la Loco à 3 ans" with
Ian Mac Culloch in the famous Parisian club la Locomotive.

In early 90, Sunset was issued in CD format with 5 bonus tracks. That
was just the perfect time to see MGR on TV screen, playing around in the
"Buttes Chaumont" garden, or in the Mary's
Garden video clip. To go on with novelty, MGR recorded the four tracks 12-inch
single Hot Shot in Space. There was still some compilation affairs
around with the Party included on the Lively Art
compilation 13 and a completely insane home-made version of
the Nightmare dating from 85 included on
l'Appel de la Muse.

Hot Shot in Space was the last production of MGR
for Lively Art. Actually, MGR decided to join
New Rose while Lively Art was separating from it. That
was also the occasion for MGR to get rid of the meaningless
Touching Pop burden and to be seen as a pop/rock band instead of a sad and desperate new wave
diehard one.